Three Olympic updates, all with ominous effects on the Rio Games:
- Rio itself has declared a state of emergency on it's finances and might not be able to meet it's Olympic financial obligations. (Deadspin)
- Today, the weightlifting organizers have announced provisional measures to disqualify Russia from the weightlifting competition. Kazakhstan and Belarus are also subject to such a ban. Reasoning: Doping.
- Of course, the Russian disqualification from weightlifting might be moot: By July 15, WADA is supposed to receive a report on the accusations of the state-sponsored doping and test-evasion program which is believed to have inflated the medal count at the Sochi Homophobe-lympics. WADA's recommendation will probably, then, be for the International Olympic Committee to blanket-ban Russia from the Rio Games.
- As of today (at an extraordinary summit for the Olympics vis-a-vis doping), however, it appears that Russia (and also Kenya) will be subject to having every athlete tested (at the individual sport level) by independent investigators before they would be allowed to compete in Rio de Janeiro. (The Guardian)
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